Two Gents' Worth
November 22, 2024
We are so politically polarized in these United States that I’m not at all sure whether Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump gained any new supporters during their first presidential debate Monday night. But there’s no doubt — among observers who are not in the tank for either candidate — that Clinton won the debate and…
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Hillary Clinton’s running mate traveled to Iowa State University in Ames on Monday, and since I’m spending a bit of time in Ames, I went to see him. And I came away with the wish that Tim Kaine was the Democrat running for president, not Mrs. Clinton. Kaine’s campaign appearance at the university’s Memorial Union…
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I’m spending a bit of time in the heart of the American heartland — Ames, Iowa, the home of Iowa State University, where I taught journalism decades ago. For years now, I’ve returned to Ames in the fall — always the best time of year in the Midwest. I visit friends, eat a lot of…
Read More about Midwest Sensibilities[Editor: Dr. Scott Sturman is an anesthesiologist who has practiced for many years in Fresno. His assessment of Hillary Clinton’s medical condition, obviously viewed from afar, is the best we have seen. B.E.] By Dr. Scott Sturman One of the fittest nearly 60 year old women on the planet, who has climbed mountains over 19,000…
Read More about Guest Commentary: Hillary’s HealthWell, Hillary Clinton’s very bad weekend just got a whole lot worse, and her campaign for the presidency may have been fatally compromised. By getting sick at the 911 memorial service in New York City on Sunday morning — and by her campaign’s initial claim that she was merely “overheated” — Clinton’s health is now…
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Yep. Hillary Clinton has just made a deplorable mistake — one that may prove fatal to her run for the White House. By saying that half of Donald Trump’s supporters fall into what she called a “basket of deplorables,” Clinton has violated virtually every rule of campaigning. For one thing, she has denigrated not her…
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So here we are, on Labor Day weekend, and the final push is about to begin in this miserable, horrible race for the White House. No one can be sure how this is all going to play out, but there are a few things we know. First, this race is Hillary Clinton’s to lose —…
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Just hours after trying to make “nice-nice” with Mexico’s president, Donald Trump made it clear — again — on Wednesday night that he doesn’t like illegal immigrants. Trump told an adoring crowd in Phoenix that he’d remove millions of people living in the United States illegally if he becomes president. He said that failure to…
Read More about Trump’s “New” PlanWhat to make of that human mess that is Anthony Weiner, the former Congressman from New York who is apparently unable to stop sending “sexually suggestive” pictures of himself to other women? Well, for starters, his marriage to Huma Abedin — one of Hillary Clinton’s top aides — seems to be over, and justifiably so….
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We can all see this one coming, can’t we? Our current presidential campaign – the one being waged by two of the most distrusted and disliked major-party candidates in recent memory – is on track to render the eventual winner a failure. It’s a “take no prisoners” campaign – full of personal insults, wild charges,…
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